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John Drew Sheard Jr. (born January 1, 1959) [1] is an American pastor and minister from Detroit, Michigan, who is the current presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, a six million-member predominantly African-American Holiness Pentecostal denomination that has now grown to become one of the largest African-American Pentecostal denominations in the United States.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
The current Presiding Bishop is Bishop John Drew Sheard Sr., who is the Senior Pastor of the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ of Detroit, Michigan. He was elected as the denomination's leader on March 27, 2021.
On the eve of the Church of God in Christ’s second Holy Convocation back in Memphis, COGIC Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard is set to release a book of weekly devotionals.. The book, “Say It ...
The Church became affiliated with the Church of God in Christ in 1988. [citation needed] Gilbert Earl Patterson was born September 22, 1939, in the parsonage next door to the Church of God in Christ in Humboldt, Tennessee. He was the son of the late Bishop William Archie Patterson Sr. and Mary Louise Patterson.
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Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press June 24, 2024 at 6:05 AM Development of a highly visible and long-stalled megachurch on Woodward Avenue and Seven Mile in Detroit is moving again — on paper and ...
Whereas Bishop Lawson, as founder, had been the sole governing prelate of the organization, Bonner suggested that there be a board of archbishops, or "apostles", who would govern the churches. Two other groups, the Board of Bishops and the Board of Presbyters, both hold accountable and are held accountable by the Board of Apostles.